all - Opinion Summaries

Shelby v. Superformance Int'l, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Trade Dress, Trademark, Transportation
Appeal from a partial summary judgment grant for defendant is dismissed in a trademark and trade-dress case involving a car manufacturer and the...

Bretford Mfg. Inc. v. Smith Sys. Mfg. Corp.

Intellectual Property, Trade Dress, Trademark
In a trademark dispute concerning a computer table, defendant did not engage in "reverse passing off" when it incorporated some of plaintiff's...

TUMBLEBUS INC. v. CRANMER

Intellectual Property, Remedies, Trade Dress, Trademark
A preliminary injunction issued against defendant, restricting her use of a mark's trade dress during the pendency of an underlying infringement...

CREATIVE COMPUTING v. GETLOADED.COM

Copyright, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Trade Dress
In a suit involving trade dress and copyright infringement claims, judgment for plaintiff is affirmed where defendant violated the federal Computer...

MILLER YACHT SALES, INC. v. SMITH

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, Trade Dress
Dismissal of plaintiff's suit, alleging trade-dress infringement and tortious interference, for lack of personal jurisdiction is reversed were...

GATEWAY INC. v. COMPANION PRODS.

Intellectual Property, Trade Dress, Trademark
Defendant's product infringed plaintiff-Gateway's black and white cow and spots trademark where the spots have acquired distinctiveness through...

SOCIETE DES HOTELS MERIDIEN v. LASALLE HOTEL OPERATING P'SHIP

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Trade Dress, Trademark
Dismissal of plaintiff's suit under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) is reversed where plaintiff's stated claims under the Lanham Act,...

THE SCOTT FETZER CO. v. HOUSE OF VACUUMS, INC.

Attorney's Fees, Intellectual Property, Trade Dress, Trademark
In a trademark infringement case, summary judgment was granted to defendant as no reasonable jury could conclude that defendant misappropriated...

THE BEACON MUT. INS. CO. v. ONEBEACON INS.

Intellectual Property, Trade Dress, Trademark
The court reversed summary judgment in favor of defendants where a factfinder could have reasonably inferred that actual confusion injured the...

MID-LIST PRESS v. NORA

Intellectual Property, Trade Dress, Trademark
Company was entitled to permanent injunction preventing company president from using the company's trade name and ISBN number on his book of poetry,...